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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Slipware dish moulded in relief with a stag in front of a tree surrounded by circular motifs containing stylized flowers, slip trailed in two shades of brown and lead-glazed.
Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce decoration in relief on the front, coated with cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed; the reverse is undecorated. The dish is circular with shallow curved sides and a flat centre. The outer edge is crimped by impressing it with a striated tool or possibly a small shell. Two suspension holes are pierced near the top edge. The central medallion is occupied by a running stag in front of a white tree. The sides are decorated with sixteen circular motifs reserved in an alternately brown and dark brown ground. Each motif comprises a cogged wheel enclosing a flowerhead, of which every alternate one has a brown centre.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 28 September 1917, lot 39; bought by Cyril Andrade for 31 ½ guineas (£33.0.6); sold by him for £35 on 5 October 1917 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 24.4 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late or 18th Century, Early
Circa
1680
-
1700
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, white, reddish-brown and dark brown)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Front
dark buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, slip-coated in cream, slip-trailed in reddish-brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed. The outer edge was crimped by impressing an oval striated implement or perhaps a shell into the edge.
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with cut corners, and a wide blue border with a narrow line within it
Accession number: C.186-1928
Primary reference Number: 72771
Old object number: 4877
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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